Angel Fernández-Chavero is the Managing Director and founder of Aspire Praxis, LLC, a firm dedicated to “helping you create high impact, high value, long-lasting change.” It provides strategic and technical services in the areas of grantmaking; capital, annual, and endowment campaign development; planned giving; program and financial management; social investment strategies; and donor service systems and strategies. He was formerly a senior development officer for The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, advising and cultivating high net worth individuals regarding charitable giving and investment options, raising over $18 million. He previously served as a program officer, overseeing $5.4 million of grants and their respective strategies in the areas of economic development, arts, environment, and community development. Before that, he was Director of Fund Distribution and Community Planning for the United Way of Greater New Haven, where he oversaw the redesign of its $1.1 million fund distribution and agency membership systems. Prior, he opened the New Haven program of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, investing over $4 million, which produced 156 units of housing, 90,000 sq. ft. commercial (including LISC’s first supermarket investment), and a day care center, leveraging $30 million in private and public investment. He was also the assistant director of a New Haven housing development corporation, and a program manager in New Haven’s Office of Housing and Neighborhood Development. He is a leader of the Pastoral Council for St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, and a key strategist and organizer in its effort to eliminate racial profiling and brutality by the East Haven Police Department. He is chair of the Finance and Investment Committee for the New Haven Scholarship Fund; co-chair of the Immigration Committee of the Greater New Haven Jewish Community Relations Council, and serves on the board of directors for New Life Corporation (family economic success) and the New Haven Green Fund (endowment for the environment).